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Fish Radio with Laine Welch

Galley Tables

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The Kodiak Island Borough School District
has contributed $10,000 dollars to the Kodiak Football League. Superintendent
Stewart McDonald said that it's been a long time in coming. He pointed out that
KFL involves around 100 students a year and has proven its ability to sustain
itself.

On May 28th, six candidates for Alaska governor gathered at the Gerald C. Wilson Auditorium in Kodiak for the quadrenial debate on fisheries issues. In attendance were incumbent Sean Parnell, Republican challengers Bill Walker and Ralph Samuels, and Democratic candidates Ethan Berkowitz, Hollis French and Bob Poe. The debate is in three parts, linked above; Hours 1 and 2, and segment 3, which was after the debate when audience members asked the candidates questions in the "From the Frying Pan into the Fire" segment.

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Kodiak
Island Borough Assembly members worked through budget issues Thursday night in
advance of next week's regular assembly meeting.The session involved going point by point through
the questions raised by assembly members at an earlier budget review.

There were
also updates and adjustments made to the budget as a result of changes that
have occurred since it was first introduced on April 20th.

One of the
biggest changes is the cash appropriation to the school district.

Last week
the assembly chose to appropriate money to the school district that was equal
to last year's local contribution. Now it appears that new borough budgetary
figures will mean some better news for the school district.

Reductions
in both liability and property insurance for the school district have freed up
$172,000. Liability insurance is $112,000 less than originally budgeted and
property insurance is $60,000 less than expected. Those savings will translate
into a higher cash contribution for the school budget.

The school
district had asked the borough to increase its local funding this year. The
additional $172,000 in insurance savings, will be used to raise the cash
contribution to the schools. The increase in the appropriation will still fall
$321,000 less than the district's requested amount.

At the worksession Borough Finance Director Carl Short told the assembly members that in the
future it will be necessary to find new funding sources to pay expenses. For
now, he says, thinks are pretty stable.

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An
unanticipated consequence of the city's new long-term parking policy at Saint
Paul Harbor was pointed out to the Kodiak City Council at its meeting last
night. The new policy requires parking permits for the long-term parking area
near the Harbormaster's Office, but they can only be bought by people who
already lease a slip in the harbor. Non-harbor customers are ineligible, which
could cause problems for villagers like Barbara Anderson, who came to town from
Ouzinkie yesterday for Crab Fest.